Improvement in whiffletrees



UNITED STATES PATENT CFEIOE.-

JOSEPH E. AMEs, lOE OHEsT TOWNSHIP, rENNsYLvANIA.

A iMPRovEMENT IN wH|EFLETREEs- I Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,005, dated June 20, 1871.

To all lwhom, it may concern: A

vBe it known that I, JOsEPH R. ArrEs, of

Chest, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Mode Ot' Making Irons for Double-Trees and Whiiiietrees, and a trace attachment 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description of the construction and application and operation of the same, reference being made to the annexed drawing making a f part of this specification, in Which- Figure l is a perspective view.

4The nature of my invention consists in ironing double-trees and Whifdetrees with iron plates the width of the thickness 'of the trees and their full length, with va halt' hinge at'each end, figures A A, and plain plates of similar Width in front, B, and riveted in connection with the back plate to the tree--the back plate to add to the general strength, and the front plate to act as a brace to the tree and a base on which the revolving hook C is to turn. The trace-hooks (or eyes) C C are inserted in the hinged ends Of the back plate. so that they form right angles-With the backs of the treesv -G G, all' constructed and arranged snbstan tially as andi'or the purposes set forth.

' JOSEPH R. AMES.

i Witnesses:

JOHN L. GUTTLE, WM. H. NEWOOMEE. 

